Cover for milk-cans.



` G. C. HALL. COVER FOR MILK (JANS. APPLICATION FILED AUG.4, 1911.

W/'TNE SSE S.' /N VE N TOR A TroP/VEY M J By I QM m www# To all whom if muy conferir GEORGE C. HALL, 0F ADRXAN, MC'HGAN.

COVER FR MILK-SANS.

Specification o Letters ateiit.

Application filed .August 4. 1911. Serial No. 642,306.

lle it known that l, Giioaoe (l. limi., a citizen of the limited States, residing at' No. 34 North McKenzie street, in the city of Adrian, in the county ot' Lenawee and Stateot' Michigan, have invented a new and useful cover for milk-cans and all other receptacles of whatever kind and nature where it becomes necessary or desirable-to keep the contents thereof eool, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement. in a cover to be used as above outlined, which cover is designed to have an extension from the lower-part theneof which may be extended at any distance into the receptacle where it is used, and; into this extension of the bottom 0r lower part ot' said cover, ice or other cooling substances may be placed for the. purpose of producing` a cooling,r and refrigerating effect upon theI milk or any other liquid substance or compound that it. may be desired or necessaryto keep at a'lower temperature and to keep the same. cool, so that it may be more sanitary; and the objects oi my improvement arc: l. To provide a cover as above described, which may be used in an Y and all receptacles'where it becomes .desirous or necessary to keep the contents thereof at. a lowcr temperature than they otherwise would be. 2. And to provide an improven incnt whereby icc or other substances may be placed in said cover and used inl said receptacles, and said cover at all times to he sanitary, and tokeep the ice and other coolinel substames away from the contents ot' said receptacles in such a manner that the contents oi said receptacles may be cooled and still kept from contamination or any iin-rf .it-ary dieet. 3. That the Vimprovement. may be used in any sized lcan or rer-,elptaole simply by extending;r the length of tie cover, or that part ot' the cover which may be used for refrigerating'pui-poses, so that the saine may meet' any need that would be required in having the saine extended to the bottom ol a can or other receptacle, or simply extend into it part of the distance.

l attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in t whichi Figure 1 shows the form of the oover with said attachment as;it..might be -uiaed iii the ordinaij7 ten gallon milk can, A representing' the can, il represents the cover as rit is in place at the mouth of vthc can, C represents the handle to the Cover, it beingr in a proper position for raising,l the cover from the fait, said handle being constructed i'i such a manner that it may be turned down in the mouth ot said can when not" `use and fastened at, either side b v a bolt marked D, which passes through and is fastened to iin-ear which is also fastened to the upper part of the cover, said xar being:4 marked 15", movable so that. the cover ii'ia'py be filled with iee or other substance as may be desired without removingy the cover rom the can or other receptacle. ln the to i' of said cover and resting upon a shoulder placed in and around said cover marked 1" is an inncr cover tor keeping the contents of the main cover intact, this inner cover being,r marked (l into which inner eover 1s fastened a loose handle which is movable` and may be raised when it is desired to' moved up or down as desired for use,rC e

represents the outcr edge ot' the inner cover. 1)" rcprescnts the inside ot' the oover Awhich ishollow, it. being designed that the inner cover should be so constructed that there would be an air chamber between the upner and lower part of this cover, and that the saine could be inode either round, square or in an),T other shape, so that the lower edge lll would tit upon the shoulder which is provided for in Fig. l, es shown by letter l", and Fig. 3 represents a side View of the inner cover, and when placed in position this inner cover would tit into the top olf the outside cover and keep the air and other eubetaneesfroin passing into the main cover or Iinto the ice or other substanees that the main @over might contain, and could be readily removed without taking out. the inain oever and iee or other substances used Patented July 16, 19'12.`

said handle or bail beinv for the purpose of refrigerationA placed in the 11min (zover, without taking it from the can.

What I elnim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters. Patent, is:

The combination with the flaring mouth of u milk ean,'of a removable ice receiving receptacle having a flared mouth adapted to be snugly received by the mouth of the can, an outwardly projecting lateral flange forming a continuation of the flared mouth of the receptacle and adapted to bindingly engage with and extend beyond the upper edge of the mouth of the can, un annular seat forming n part of said receptacle, a elo- Sure ortlel'atter and engaging with the seat', n handle hingedly secured to the upper flared mouth of the recept-nele and adapted to be closed within the same, and a handle hingedly secured to the closure and foldable against the sume and within the handle secured to the receptacle, whereby said handles are adapted to be turned below `the projecting flanged portion of the receptacle.

. GEORGE C. HALL.

Witnesses:

ADA TORNOW,

ANNA NooNE. 

